French To Start Chasing File-Sharers “In the Spring”
France’s culture minister confirmed Friday that the chasing of file-sharers will begin in the spring. Those caught will be subjected to the much-touted “3 strikes” regime.
After seemingly endless legal tennis, the French government, led by Nicholas Sarkozy, finally pushed their controversial graduated response system through.
Last week, French senator Michel Thiolliere said that he had high hopes for the so-called Hadopi legislation, estimating that nearly everyone warned for a second time would stop illegal file-sharing for good.
Today, French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand admitted that there are some technical bugs to iron out of the system, but they should be fixed in the coming months.
The hunt for illicit file-sharers, he said, will begin in the spring.
In the meantime, French file-sharers will be getting prepared.
I agree with the very last sentence. This won’t stop file sharing, only change habits.
Looks like more French users will be using a proxy from outside their country
HAHA yeah those that arn’t prepared will be getting prepared. Thumbs up
Unfortunately though, once they begin enforcing it and everyone uses VPN’s/proxies and such, they will claim to have created a huge dent in the the # of file-sharers and say it was a big success, which might influence other countries to implement a “3 strikes” law…
ok so the government can strike out and their “prisoners” can’t?
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fku I don’t think so gov’t.
Anon is right, also the next step would be to attack the most popular vpn providers, telling they are making their business out of the new laws in an illegal way, introducing tax penalties and data retention for foreign customers.